Maybe it is a Las Vegas thing, but of late I have seen some pretty good looking men and women wearing the most godawful burnt orange jogging pants. They are hideous.
Am I missing something? Is this the “new color” or are the Las Vegas locals just fashion impaired?
I’m afraid I can’t answer your opening question… however… perhaps the answer lays in a fashion trend I distinctly recall in the USA around June of 1980.
I was visiting the USA at the time as a young Australian, and I noticed a shitload of men with very “average” kinda physiques were wearing these weird NFL football-ish kinda shirts which were cut off about 4 inches above ones’ belly button - supposedly to show off ones’ wonderful six-pack stomach muscles. No shit, they were fucking ugly. The problem was, obesity in America was a problem even back then, and to this Aussie guy who was 18 years old at the time, it was the most god-awful, butt-ugly fashion trend I had ever seen.
It was the first time I’d ever seen a LOT of men following a fashion trend which was obviously so debatable in merit.
Wow, Boo, I never wore any of those shirts unless I was actually playing some sort of sport. And, while I remember the shirts, I don’t recall it being used as general casual wear. Might have been a regional thing. Also, in the early 80s, I did have that six pack tummy thing going for me. Now, it’s a different kind of six pack that describes my belly.
Anyhoo, for the OP, last year, orange was the new black. What did that mean? Lots of ugly orange shit that normally wouldn’t have made it to market without that “fashion” proclamation.
What I find to be most tasteless about it, though, is people wearing jogging suits and sweats and stuff for going around in public without being involved in some sort of exercise activity. Yeah, I know someone will pipe up and say something about how comfortable they are, and why should I care what they look like and stuff. But, you know what? It looks stupid. My opinion only, but my opinion counts with me.
I wear sweats to lounge around the house, do chores, misc things. But, when I leave the house, I have on real clothes. Not always the most fashionable, for damn sure, but at least I’m in real clothes.
Again, maybe you who are reading this like to drive to the store in sweats, or take your kid to the movies in sweats, or meet your friends for lunch at the cafe in sweats… I guess I can’t stop you. But, you can’t stop me from thinking what I think, either. I think it looks stupid.
I once overheard a conversation between a couple of coworkers who had moved to Vancouver from Montreal that added significantly to my perception that, despite its inhumane weather patterns, Montreal is much for suitable for civilization:
How well I remember the day when the tantalizing prospect of a city where people simply knew better was first teasingly introduced to me.
Of course, that was long before the current trend of ridiculous shiny tracksuits for the spectacularly unathletic caught on. At least back then, people wearing sportsgear in inappropriate situations just looked like lazy slobs. Now they look even more egregiously stupid. It’s one thing to look like an ass on the cheap, with shapeless sweats fished out of a bin at K-Mart for $7, but looking like and ass while broadcasting that you payed through the nose for the privilege, and are suffering from the delusion that you look pretty cool, actually, is one of those things that can ruin the whole day for hundreds of people whose paths you cross.
Oh, the humanity. Weep for them.
The new thing around here is velour track suits. I don’t care if the top and bottom match and it’s made out of fluffy fabric, it’s still sweatpants!!
Last week there were a handful of these fashion victims at my office. Sure, we have a casual dress code, but I would never interpret “casual” to mean wearing pajamas to work.
I’m with NoClueBoy. Sweats aren’t for public wear. Keep it in the gym or at home.
Normally I wouldn’t wear sweats in public, but I wore some black velour sweatpants (with a decent shirt) on my last 10-hour airplane flight. I’ll never wear anything else on a long flight again if I have a choice in the matter. If any portion of a flight comes at a time when I would normally be sleeping, then I deserve to comfortable, dammit.
I am willingly committing an even bigger fashion faux pas than the dreaded sweat pants in public. I have a wonderful pair of Ralph Lauren men’s plaid pajama bottoms, with an elastic drawstring waist and no, ahem, open fly. They are a lightweight cotton and are pant length, not short length. I wear them just about everywhere but work, with a sweatshirt. Yes, I realize that as a 43-yr old woman, I am too mature for trndy things like jammies in public, but they are SO comfy, and I haven’t been arrested yet.
In fact, I wore them grocery shopping today. Some young (too young for him to be trying to pick me up, thanks), cute guy stopped me and wanted to know where I got them- he said they were "the coolest sweat pants I've ever seen". He was downright crestfallen when I told him that they were jammies.
Of course, I live in Georgia...Just pray that those awful tube tops don’t make a come back. I am sure we all have seen the 300 pound, 55 DDDD woman with a tube top.
When I went to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana the joke was that “the U of I is forty thousand people trying to pretend that orange and blue go together” (our school colors).
Any kind of big gathering looked like people getting ready for deer season. Blaze orange sweats everywhere you go, 24x7x52x12…
Still got my orange and blue block letter jacket. I’m stylin’, baby 
There are times, and places where sweat pants are “correct”. For instance, I wore wide banded sweat pants in public to prevent chafing/pressure on my hysterctomy incision for about the first month after being able to go out in public again. Granted, I didn’t go out in public much.
I also had a friend, who was a TINY little slender thing, who wore sweat pants as maternity wear because they were comfortable to her, and she could afford them.
I think that both of those examples are “correct”. I also think that some of you are judging rather hastily. Yeah, they are prevalent, but that does not mean that all instances are somehow “uncouth”. Ease up, they aren’t making YOU look bad after all.
You can thank J-Lo and Juicy Couture, at least partly.
She popularized their “high fashion” sweat suits. :rolleyes:
Velour in brights and pastels with “JUICY” embroidered in 4" letters across the derriere. And “hoodies” that generally look about 2 sizes too small. For which you have the pleasure of paying hundreds of dollars. :eek:
Of course knock-offs are now available at K-Mart, which explains their showing up in parking lots, supermarkets, malls and restaurants everywhere, often in sizes not meant for stretch pants.
I thought that anyone running anywhere in an orange outfit was an escaped prisoner.
I first encountered this trend about a year ago. These were my thoughts at the time:
Quit your complaining! Take a trip to Buffalo, and you’ll find that Zubaz still reigns supreme as a fashion statement. Yo!